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by rsj_hn 1316 days ago
This is a great project! But I would caution against being quick to interpret these numbers until you actually accumulated many years of data and are able to compare it to other macro economic variables such as the unemployment rate or changes in wages. Right now, you only have a few months of data, and it might be the case that this just happens every few months and doesn't mean much.

That's the point of time series -- you need to accumulate them over long periods of time and then you start processing them to understand them better to see if they are leading/contemporary/trailing predictors of what you really care about -- in this case, the tech job market.

So keep it up! But also wait a bit before using it :)